(Via NewsBusters) It seems that when there’s a good liberal narrative to be advanced, facts and  actual history don’t matter.
That was apparently the case when Oprah Winfrey claimed that the “n-word” was  the last thing heard by “millions” who were lynched. The implication is clear —  millions of blacks have been lynched because of their race.  Worse yet, Parade Magazine let Winfrey get away with her “fact”  unchallenged.
Winfrey  made her comments in an interview discussing Lee Daniels’ “The Butler,” a movie  that chronicles one black man’s years of service in the White House. Winfrey  plays the role of Gloria Gaines, the wife of Cecil Gaines, who served from  Eisenhower through Reagan.
Parade spoke with Daniels, Winfrey and actor Forest Whitacker, who plays the  role of Gaines.
All three responded to a question about using the “n-word.”
Whitaker said he doesn’t use the word and never did.
“It’s a word I used quite a bit, until Oprah sat me down and talked to me  about its power,” Daniels said.

“You cannot be my friend and use that word around me. It shows my age, but I  feel strongly about it. … I always think of the millions of people who heard  that as their last word as they were hanging from a tree,” Winfrey said.

According to information gleaned from the archives at the Tuskegee Institute, 4,743 were lynched between 1882 and 1968  — not the millions claimed by Winfrey.
Of the 4,743 people lynched during that period, about one in four — 1,297 —  were white.
Winfrey told Parade that young people today know “diddly squat” about the  civil rights movement.
That much, at least is true.
If young people were taught real history, not the politically-correct pabulum  forced on students today, they would know that Democrats fought tooth-and-nail  to stop civil rights legislation for decades and they would know that for years,  southern blacks strongly supported Republicans, something that angered white  Democrats to the point of violence. (read more)